The Fate of Virgil as Conceived by Dante: A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living between Walter Savage Landor and Willard Fiske
by ANDERSON, MELVILLE BEST
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931, 1931. First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed. Fine copy.. 4to, original tan linen spine, gray-green paper boards and printed paper labels, untrimmed. A dialogue between the book collector and scholar, Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Walter Savage Landor, set in Villa Landor in Italy, where Landor had once lived and where Fiske later lived. The dialogue, about Dante and Virgil, was written in observation of the two-thousandth anniversary of Virgil's birth.
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21763
- Title
- The Fate of Virgil as Conceived by Dante: A Dialogue of the Dead and the Living between Walter Savage Landor and Willard Fiske
- Author
- ANDERSON, MELVILLE BEST
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931
- Date Published
- 1931
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